Healthcare
Safety Hub
For Sharpsmart, safety is much more than just a feature. It’s the foundation of everything we do – from product and service design to staff training, clinical partnerships and regulatory leadership.
Making Healthcare Safer
By Design, By Culture, By Commitment
Healthcare is one of the most complex and high-risk environments in the world.
Every day, staff face challenges that threaten their safety – from sharps injuries and infection risk to the hidden dangers of waste handling.
Too often, safety is only seen through the lens of compliance, with minimum standards becoming the benchmark. We go further…
Sharpsmart was founded to change this.
‘Making Healthcare Safer‘ is the philosophy that guides Sharpsmart. We’re committed to developing the safest, most environmentally friendly products and services available for everyone involved in healthcare. Our systems have been designed with extensive input and advice from clinical experts and healthcare professionals worldwide.
Our primary focus is the reduction of sharps injuries through safer sharps management systems and practices, but our safety approach goes even further. We also take into account other healthcare worker risks, such as the potential for back injuries if containers or accessories are too heavy or difficult to move, as well as compliance expertise and waste segregation solutions that minimise risk exposure and infection risks.
Our Healthcare Safety Hub is an ecosystem for all things safety in healthcare, helping you understand how we put safety into practice – through innovation, evidence, and a relentless focus on protecting people.
A Partnership for Safer Healthcare
Discover how Sharpsmart goes beyond containers and collections to deliver safer outcomes for staff and patients. The Sharpsmart Difference brochure explores how our clinically engineered solutions, point-of-care service model and data-driven insights reduce risk, improve compliance and transform healthcare safety.
Our Global Impact in Healthcare Safety
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Time Tested
40 Years Experience
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20,000+
Active Partnerships
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4,000+
NSIs Prevented Annually
Clinical Waste Containers Designed for Safety
As an industry, we need to get back to the fact that we’re working in a clinical environment where staff and patient safety should be the number one priority. At Sharpsmart, we have designed all of our containment systems – sharps, cytotoxic, offensive and infectious clinical waste, and pharmaceutical waste, to achieve the highest standard of safety, clinical design and efficiency in the industry. Hands-free access, tamper-proof, penetration-resistant, and leak-proof with a robotic washing process that achieves high-level disinfection – this is safety beyond compliance.
Working Within Your Four Walls
Sharpsmart presents a dramatic shift from traditional waste companies by operating within the four walls of your healthcare facility. Following an in-depth analysis of your needs, we provide a solution that’s optimised and tailored for your chosen departments. Our scoping and analysis consider current staff practices, hospital layout, and disposal methodologies to determine the most streamlined waste management solution that positively impacts the five key needs of healthcare (safety, sustainability, efficiency, compliance and education).
Needlestick Safety Is About More Than Compliance
It’s about compassion, and recognising that every injury has a ripple effect. Needlestick injuries are preventable, but eliminating them relies on multiple factors, such as safer devices, safer sharps containers, the adoption of safer processes, and encouraged injury reporting. The issues that lead to NSIs are not isolated – they’re systemic. And as a result, they require a coordinated industry-wide response to create a safer, more supportive healthcare environment.
We Set the Standard for ISO-Compliant Reusable Sharps Containers
Reusable sharps containers have been widely accepted within the healthcare industry due to the inherent benefits they provide, including plastic reduction, a significant decrease in CO2e, and in many cases, a reduction in sharps injuries due to the engineered safety features that can be incorporated into reusables. The BS EN ISO 23907-2 standard provides a crucial benchmark that serves as a key reference point for healthcare professionals concerned with the quality of their reusable systems.
Explore Our Safety in Healthcare Content Library
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Post7 Tips for Clinical Staff to Make Healthcare Safer
Ensuring patient safety is a collective responsibility that clinical staff shoulder each day – here are 7 practical tips to make healthcare safer.
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PostCommon Mistakes with Sharps Waste Disposal
To help ensure the safety of staff and patients, and avoid the consequences of improper sharps disposal, here’s a list of the most common mistakes.
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PostExpert Tips for Reducing Needlestick Injuries within Healthcare Settings
Read on to discover some helpful tips from our sharps safety experts for reducing needlestick injuries within healthcare settings.
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PostHow Healthcare Waste Management Can Impact Infection Control
A look at how healthcare waste management can impact infection control and how an optimised approach can be designed to reduce infection risk.
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PostHow Reusable Containers Break the Chain of Infection
A look at how reusable sharps containers break the chain of infection and the peer-reviewed research that demonstrates why transmission isn’t possible.
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PostHow to Deal with a Sharps Injury
Needlestick injuries are an occupational hazard for all healthcare workers. Learn more about the right way to deal with a sharps injury.
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PostHow to Protect Healthcare Workers From Sharps Injuries
A look at the Royal College of Nursing’s sharps injury prevention guidance to see how the hierarchy of controls can be applied to sharps safety.
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PostMeet the Reusable Sharps Container That Set the UK ISO Standard
The question used to be: ‘Should I choose a single-use sharps container or a reusable?’ But as more reusable sharps […]
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PostSafely Managing Category A Infectious Waste in Healthcare Settings
A guide to Category A waste management. Learn how to safely dispose of Category A, including proper packaging, classification, and disposal methods.
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PostSharps Container Overfilling? No more!
Sharps container overfilling is a significant occupational risk to healthcare workers – learn what to do if you see an overfilled sharps container.
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PostStrategies and Resources for Needlestick Injury Prevention
Needlestick injuries come with a cost – both a financial cost and a human cost. Here are some helpful resources for preventing needlestick injuries.
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PostThe True Cost of a Needlestick Injury
Needlestick injuries in the UK are rising at an exponential rates, there is both a human cost and a resource cost associated with the increase in sharps injuries
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PostWhy Should You Report A Needlestick Injury?
Needlestick injuries are one of the biggest hazards within the healthcare environment, but so many still go unreported. Learn why you should always report NSIs.
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ResearchC-Diff Transmission Potential with Sharps Containers
This study examined literature and guidelines to determine the microbiological risk of using reusable clinical waste containers.
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ResearchReusable Sharps Containers: Impact on Infection Risk
This study examined literature and guidelines to determine the microbiological risk of using reusable clinical waste containers.
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ResearchSharpsmart: Impact on Sharps Injuries
A Before-After intervention study of 8 acute care hospitals ranging in size from 150 to 850 beds in Australia, New Zealand and Scotland converting to the Sharpsmart sharps containers
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VideoHow Can You Prevent Needlestick Injuries within the Clinical Setting?
In this video, expert healthcare waste consultant Mary Kenyon offers practical advice for preventing needlestick injuries within the clinical environment.
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Case StudyNSIs Reduced by Over 85% After Switching Sharps Containers
A simple switch to reusable sharps containers helped Whiston Hospital reduce NSIs by over 85%.
Do you want to Make Healthcare Safer with a waste partner you can rely on?
A partnership with Sharpsmart gives you peace of mind that your staff and patients are protected by the highest standards of safety.
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